LGBTQ rights activists are hopg that Japan may fally allow same-sex marriage if Taro Kono, who has publicly supported gay marriage, be the untry's next prime mister, but change will not e easily.
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- SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN IS GAG MOMENTUM
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN IS GAG MOMENTUM
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Anti-gay sentiment is ntrast a relatively morn import om the has bee a strong social nventn, makg life hard for those who do not nform. Like many gay and transgenr Japane, Aiko's partner has not e out to her lleagu. In schools, gay children are often bullied.
Kawaguchi Kazuya of Hiroshima Shudo Universy says that portrayals of gay life on Japane televisn and film have shifted om erotic, seedy dramas the early 1990s to more “wholome” imag, as epomised by a h edy seri about a gay uple, “Ko nani tabeta? Hearg the urt clare the prohibn on gay marriage unnstutnal was “almost like a dream for me”, Aiko says.
The untry today is still a rtrictive society unr which many queer folk chafe — a place where most people tolerate the gays, but relatively few tly accept them. Gay Japan pageant 2019, a platform he to promote LGBTQ activism and allyship. — Homosensual ?️? (@SoyHomosensual) May 3, 2017.